Red Jacket, 1750-1830 [Receipt for $100 annuity paid to Red Jacket, a Seneca chief, for the Six Nations]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05742.01 Author/Creator: Red Jacket, 1750-1830 Place Written: Buffalo, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 28 May 1821 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 16.1 cm, Width: 19.6 cm Order a Copy
Records payment made by "LeRoy Bayard [illegible initial] McEvers & Thomas Morris" and delivered by Jasper Parrish, sub-agent to the Six Nations. The payment was owed in accordance with "an agreement made with Robert Morris at Big Tree in September 1797 - up to September 1820." Witnessed and signed by Charles F. Cort and E. P. Parrish. Red Jacket signed with X.
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